GNOME Input Integration

Summary

This feature is unify GNOME handling of XKb and Input Methods to provide an integrated keyboard input experience to users
of Fedora's default desktop. This work may be extended in the future to other desktop environments.

Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

For a long time input on the Unix/Linux desktop has been split by a choice between xkb and input-methods (IM)
which often do not work well together. The feature covers work to improve this situation
for GNOME 3 bringing xkb and IM configuration and use together into an unified UI,
like popular commercial OS's provide today.

Scope

Add imsettings support into GNOME control panel keyboard configuration to allow users to turn on IM at the same time as selecting keyboard layouts.

On-screen keyboard support with eekboard, etc integrated through ibus

How To Test

Configuration/activation of input-method usage

Switching between xkb and ibus input method engines directly

Turning off ibus from GNOME configuration capplet.

User Experience

Unified input indicator will be available for the GNOME Desktop replacing the keyboard layout indicator and ibus applet dichotomy.
Users will be able to switch seamlessly between keyboard layouts and input-methods like on other modern OS's.

Dependencies

A lot of this work can be done on the ibus side but some changes will need to be integrated and accepted upstream in GNOME.